Stars at Kings preview

STARS (31-27-5) at KINGS (23-33-7)
10:30 p.m. ET; FS-W, FS-SW, NHL.TV

Cogliano sustained an upper-body injury during a 4-1 loss against the Vegas Golden Knights at T-Mobile Arena on Tuesday. Cogliano has played in 929 of a possible 931 games during his 12-season NHL career for the Edmonton Oilers, Anaheim Ducks and Stars, missing two games last season because of suspension to end his consecutive games played streak at 830, the fourth-longest in NHL history.
The Stars are 2-5-0 in their past seven games and trail the Minnesota Wild and Colorado Avalanche by one point for a wild card from the Western Conference into the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The Kings, who are last in the Western Conference, are 0-6-3 in their past nine games. A loss Thursday would match their second-longest losing streak ever, (0-10-0 from Feb. 22-March 9, 1984).

Players to watch

Stars forward Alexander Radulov has four points (two goal, two assists) during a three-game point streak.
Kings forward Alex Iafallo has four points (three goals, one assist) in his past six games.

They said it

"This kind of game, (against) a team that's obviously out of it, you got to almost find and dig up more emotion to not only get into it but be ready for the first five minutes and take over and set the pace right away." -- Stars center Tyler Seguin
"That's kind of the one thing that we've been holding our goalies out to dry on is we'll go do somebody else's job and then leave our guy wide open, so we got to tighten up." -- Kings forward Jonny Brodzinski on how Los Angeles has allowed 15 goals in the past three games

Stars projected lineup

Roope Hintz -- Tyler Seguin -- Alexander Radulov
Denis Gurianov -- Radek Faksa -- Blake Comeau
Mattias Janmark -- Joel L'Esperance -- Jason Spezza
Valeri Nichushkin -- Jason Dickinson -- Brett Ritchie
Esa Lindell -- John Klingberg
Miro Heiskanen -- Roman Polak
Taylor Fedun -- Ben Lovejoy
Anton Khudobin
Ben Bishop
Scratched:Jamie Oleksiak, Julius Honka
Injured: Andrew Cogliano (upper body), Jamie Benn (upper body), Mats Zuccarello (arm), Stephen Johns (upper body), Marc Methot (upper body), Martin Hanzal (back), Tyler Pitlick (upper body)

Kings projected lineup

Alex Iafallo -- Anze Kopitar -- Dustin Brown
Ilya Kovalchuk -- Jeff Carter -- Tyler Toffoli
Brendan Leipsic -- Adrian Kempe -- Jonny Brodzinski
Kyle Clifford -- Trevor Lewis -- Austin Wagner
Derek Forbort -- Drew Doughty
Dion Phaneuf -- Matt Roy
Sean Walker --
Kurtis MacDermid
Jonathan Quick
Jack Campbell
Scratched:Paul LaDue, Matt Luff
Injured: Alec Martinez (upper body)

Status report

Cogliano returned to Dallas for treatment and could be available against the St. Louis Blues on Saturday. … Benn practiced Thursday and will miss his second straight game. … Martinez practiced Thursday but has not been cleared for contact.

Stat pack

Khudobin is 2-1-0 with a .935 save percentage in his past three games while facing at least 45 shots each game. … Los Angeles is 0-for-12 on the power play in its past five games.